[Talk-us-massachusetts] Mass state routes & interstates using ramp tag

[Wayne Emerson, Jr.]

Looking more closely it looks like all the on-ramps in MA have this tag. 
Only 3 sections of Route 3 have it. So it is not all the state routes. I 
have only been editing OSM for a few months, so I am never sure about 
anything or what to do about it. My guess would be someone should check 
if this messes up any bicycle or wheelchair type maps. Remember that guy 
last month that took his wheelchair into the Pru tunnel?

-Wayne (User Rassilon in OSM)

On 4/12/2019 9:48 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "Wayne Emerson, Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts"
> <talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> writes:
>
>> The wiki for this key
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ramp
>>
>> says in the description: "Whether a ramp for bicycles, strollers,
>> wheelchairs or luggage is built into a stairway" The sidebar says it
>> Requires "highway=steps". By chance I discovered a section of Route 3
>> with ramp=yes. (Not the on-ramp) I checked all the New England states
>> with overpass-turbo and no other state uses this tag on state routes
>> or interstates, whereas Massachusetts uses it on almost every major
>> highway, probably thousands of times. I'm pretty sure interstates are
>> quite stair free, though the potholes might count. Is the wiki
>> incorrect?
> In the history of OSM, Massachusetts is pretty different in a few ways.
> One is that roads from MassGIS (really from the EOT, now MassDOT) were
> imported before the big TIGER import for the rest of the country.  This
> was back in the time when everything including imports was much less
> organized and reviewed.
>
> I am guessing that perhaps this made sense at the time and is from that
> import (2008?).  I would look at some of the places that have it and
> back at the history, and maybe we can figure out how it came to be, and
> if we should be cleaning it up, or if it's not causing trouble and it's
> low on the priority list to fix.
>
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